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End of the Road Map

By

Ehud Olmert

Updated Sept. 15, 2003 2:09 a.m. ET

JERUSALEM -- It is with tragic irony -- the kind that only the Middle East can produce -- that Israel's cabinet has decided to expel Yasser Arafat so near the 10th anniversary of the signing of the Oslo "peace" Accords.

As the latest American diplomatic initiative, the "road map," is derailed by a resumed wave of suicide bombings, we Israelis are painfully aware that we have achieved little in these 10 years of direct negotiations with the Palestinians. Indeed, in a week in which 15 of our families are mourning...